Death Proof

Death Proof

Death Proof is a 2007 American exploitation thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Kurt Russell as a stuntman who murders young women in staged car accidents using his "death-proof" stunt car. It co-stars Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, with stuntwoman Zoë Bell as herself. The film pays homage to the slasher, exploitation and muscle car films of the 1970s. Death Proof was released theatrically in the United States as part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror under the collective title Grindhouse, to recreate the experience of viewing exploitation film double features in a "grindhouse" theater. The films were released separately outside the United States and on DVD, with Death Proof going on sale in the U.S. on September 18, 2007. The film was in the main competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre: Action, Thriller
Production: The Weinstein Co./Dimension
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
NOT RATED
Year:
2007
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Jungle Julia:
Sorry, it was a one-time only offer and she did it earlier this evening at Anton's.

Stuntman Mike:
No, she didn't.

Arlene:
How do you know?

Stuntman Mike:
I'm good that way. And you look a little touch?.

Arlene:
What's touch??

Stuntman Mike:
Wounded, slightly.

Arlene:
Why sould I be wounded?

Stuntman Mike:
Because you expected guys to be pestering you all night, but from your look I can tell nobody pestered you at all. That kind of hurt your feelings a little bit, didn't it? There are few things as fetching as a bruised ego on a beautiful angel.

[Arlene smiles]

Stuntman Mike:
[slowly] So, how about that lap dance?

Arlene:
I think I'm going to have to give you a rain check.

Stuntman Mike:
Well, since you'll be leaving in the next couple of days, that rain check will be worthless. But that's okay. I understand if I make you uncomfortable. You're still a nice girl, and I still like you. But I must warn you of something - you know how people say "You're okay in my book" or "In my book, that's no good"? Well, I actually have a book.

[Stuntman Mike pulls out a little book from his back pocket]

Stuntman Mike:
And everybody I ever meet goes in this book. And, now I've met you, and you're going in the book! Except, I'm afraid I must file you... under... "chicken sh*t."

Arlene:
[grabbing the book] And what if I did it?

Stuntman Mike:
Well, definitely couldn't file you under "chicken sh*t" then, now, could I?

Arlene:
What's your name again?

Stuntman Mike:
[quietly] Stuntman Mike.

Arlene:
Well, Stuntman Mike, I'm Butterfly. My friend Jungle Julia over here says that jukebox inside is pretty impressive.

Stuntman Mike:
Yeah, it is.

Arlene:
Yeah.

[hands Stuntman Mike back his book]

Arlene:
Why don't you get ready for your lapdance?

Abernathy:
The answer to your question, is no, of course not.

Zo?:
What do you mean "no of course not?"

Abernathy:
The reason Cecil hasn't had a girlfriend in six years, is because girls will f*** him. And if you f*** Cecil, you don't become one of his girlfriends. Not to say I want to be his girlfriend, but if I did want to be his girlfriend, if I f***ed him, I wouldn't be his girlfriend, I'd be one of his regulars. And I'm getting too f***ing old for that sh*t.

Zo?:
Have you let him do anything?

Abernathy:
Yes! I've let him give me a foot massage, and when we go to the movies, I let him hold my hand.

Kim:
B*tch, you might be acting like you're twelve years old, but he is acting like a man. You need to break the nigga off a piece.

Zo?:
Let me get this straight, you're not f***ing him, you're not sucking him, you're not giving him any tongue, but Darryl Hannah's stand in is?

Abernathy:
Okay, can we just take my sex life off the table?

Zo?:
Actually, it was Cecil's sex life that was on the table, and your lack of one.

Kim:
HAHA.

Abernathy:
Okay, f*** both of you and your little high five.

Kim:
Before you can claim a nigga, you got to claim a nigga. And you can start by giving the mother f***er a hand job on the back of the van on Tuesday.

Abernathy:
I'm not gonna do that.

Kim:
I know you won't, but you know who will? The b*tch that ends up living in that big ass mansion of his.

Lee:
Now I gotta say, I haven't agreed with everything that Kim's said, but it is true, if you stretched it out what you have with Cecil, if you suddenly get dirty on him, it blows their minds...

Abernathy:
Zoe, Kim and I were in the Philippines at an outdoor rave.

Lee:
What were you working on?

Kim:
Three Kicks to the Head Part Three

Abernathy:
And admittedly, we're a little f***ed up.

Zo?:
Cheers to that.

Abernathy:
So Zoe, the genius wants to take a picture of me, now it's dark, and you can't see sh*t. So she's got her camera and keeps saying "Step back a little" so I do, "A little further!" so I step back a little further. "A little more!" so I do. Then I realized, I'm right at the edge of a seven foot concrete ditch with god knows how many rocks and broken bottles and rats in it, and if I fell in that f***ing thing, I would have probably broken my f***ing neck. So I'm yelling at her, "Zoe, you almost killed me!" so we laugh about it, walk a little further, and Zoe starts f***ing around, and bam, if she doesn't fall in the f***ing ditch.

Zo?:
I remember taking a step, looking down, just as I'm thinking "Oh, there's that ditch everyone was talking about!" bam, I'm in the f***ing ditch, you know?

Lee:
So what happened?

Abernathy:
What, with Zoe the cat? Nothing. If I fell in that f***ing thing, they would have had to helicopter me out of there. Zoe just lands on her f***ing feet. But then later, I started feeling a little down about myself. I mean, Zoe falls in the ditch and it's nothing, we're laughing about it. If I fell in that f***ing thing, I probably would have been f***ing paralyzed.

Lee:
Oh, well you can't think like that. You know, we all have our individual talents, and that just happens to be one of Zoe's.

Kim:
Well, physically speaking, Zoe is amazing. I mean, agility, reflexes, nimbleness, there's few human beings who could f*** with Zoe on that front.

Zo?:
Aw, Kim, I like you too.

Kim:
Having said that, before you get too envious of Zoe's prowess, you're missing the most important part of that story. You didn't fall in the ditch, Zoe did. Zoe even knew there was a ditch there because you told her and she still fell in it. So, Lee's right, we all have our talents.

Zo?:
Hey, I resemble that remark.

Zo?:
If he lets us take it out on our own, I want to play ship's mast.

Kim:
Oh HELL no! There ain't no way I'm doing ship's mast.

Zo?:
For Christ Sake's, Kim...

Kim:
Don't blaspheme!

Zo?:
Sorry...

Kim:
Now, what did you say after the last time?

Zo?:
I know what I said.

Kim:
What did you say?

Zo?:
I know I said we shouldn't do this again.

Kim:
No, you didn't say we shouldn't, you said we ain't EVER gonna do that again!

Zo?:
Yeah, but...

Kim:
But my ass! You said, not only are we never gonna play ship's mast again, but you also said, if you ever do what you're trying to do now, to not only refuse, but that I had permission to physically restrain your ass if necessary. Now, did you or did you not say that?

Zo?:
Well...

Kim:
No, no no no, answer the question mother f***er, did you or did you not say that?

Zo?:
Yes, I said that, however...

Kim:
Whatever with your however.

Zo?:
I know I said it, and I know I meant it.

Kim:
Damn skippy you meant it!

Zo?:
But when I said it, I didn't mean in America.

Kim:
Oh, nigga please!

Zo?:
Really, I meant we should never play ship's mast again in New Zealand or in Australia.

Kim:
You are such a liar!

Zo?:
Look, I know what I said when I said it. But when I said it, I didn't know I'd ever come to America. And when I said it, if had I known that I was gonna come to America and have the chance to play ship's mast on a f***ing Vanishing Point Challenger, I would have added a however. Right?

Kim:
Okay, oddly enough, I actually understood that, however, just because you've talked yourself into some stupid sh*t, doesn't mean I'm out of my Goddamned mind. You need two people to play ship's mast, and I ain't playing.

Zo?:
So, we're gonna see if this guy is gonna let us take the car out without him, if he does, you wait here with Lee, and we'll be back in a moment.

Abernathy:
What?

Zo?:
I said, we're going to see if this guy lets us take the car out without him...

Abernathy:
I heard what you said. I just can't believe what you said. You know, you two got some f***ing balls.

Zo?:
What?

Abernathy:
Don't play dumbass with me. I've been up all night, I'm still a little drunk, and I have a hangover. I should be in my hotel room asleep, not f***ing around on Tobacco Road, but because Zoe wanted to drive some f***ing Vanishing Point car, I'm here. Now you two got the balls to ask me, no, scratch that, tell me I gotta go make conversation with Tom Joad while the cool kids get to go out and play? Bullshit on that!

Kim:
It ain't like that.

Abernathy:
Then what's it like, Kim?

Zo?:
You guys are our collateral. He's never gonna go for it if we all go.

Abernathy:
I really think one human being will be collateral enough.

Zo?:
You're not gonna wanna do what we're doing.

Abernathy:
What, drive a car?

Zo?:
We're doing more than that.

Abernathy:
What, drive it fast?

Zo?:
We're doing more than that.

Kim:
Actually, we're paying you a compliment because we're gonna do some stupid sh*t. But that's okay, we're stuntmen, we ain't got good sense, but you, you got good sense, and anybody that got good sense ain't gonna wanna do what we're doing.

Abernathy:
How do you know I don't wanna do it?

Zo?:
Because you're a mum.

Abernathy:
You know we're supposed to be this big posse, but that's the excuse that you guys use whenever you want to exclude me from something. So, what is it that you two daredevils are doing that I'm just so uncool I couldn't possibly understand?

Zo?:
Well, we're kind of conning this guy. So maybe it's best if we don't go into detail about it while he's watching us. Besides, he's probably not gonna let us do it anyway.

Abernathy:
Okay, how about this? I talk him into it. But if I talk him into it, I go along.

Kim:
How you gonna do that?

Abernathy:
That's my problem. But don't worry, he'll say yes.

Zo?:
What're you gonna do, blow him?

Abernathy:
No! I'm going to insinuate that Lee's going to blow him.


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